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Fustian
Puh, any fustian invocations, Captain, will serve as well as the best, so you rant them out well; or you may go to a Pothecaries shop, and take all the words from the Boxes.
–Shakespeare Apocrypha in The Puritain Widow.
Then the Scarecrow ordered the guards to bring in the wicked Krewl, King no longer, and when he appeared, loaded with chains and dressed in fustian, the people hissed him and drew back as he passed so their garments would not touch him.
–L. Frank Baum in The Scarecrow of Oz.
My two companions chattered in their strange Spanish, he of the fustian occasionally turning his countenance full upon me, the last grin appearing ever more hideous than the preceding ones.
–George Borrow in The Bible in Spain.
The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock coat.
–George Borrow in The Bible in Spain.
George started up in confusion; a man, elderly, but fresh and vigorous, stood beside him, in a light fustian jacket, a blue apron, and with rushes in his hands, which he continued to plait together nimbly and deftly as he bowed to the startled scholar.
–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in What Will He Do With It, book 5.
It is fustian; and that girl may have a brain of feather, but she has a heart of gold.
–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Parisians, book 12.
And yet beneath all this fustian there is much that stirs the blood.
–H.E. Butler in Post-Augustan Poetry (From Seneca to Juvenal).
Dirt and fustian will vanish before cleanliness and livery.
–Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz.
His children often had, and with his perfect acquiescence it had gone into the common purse to buy meat that he had eaten, and drink that he had drunk; but fustian splashed with white lime, bestowing halfpence on him, front to front, was new.
–Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit.
Men with the blue jersey and peaked cap of the boatman, or the white ducks of the dockers, began to replace the cardurys and fustian of the laborers.
–Arthur Conan Doyle in Beyond the City.
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Fustian
Puh, any fustian invocations, Captain, will serve as well as the best, so you rant them out well; or you may go to a Pothecaries shop, and take all the words from the Boxes.
–Shakespeare Apocrypha in The Puritain Widow.
Then the Scarecrow ordered the guards to bring in the wicked Krewl, King no longer, and when he appeared, loaded with chains and dressed in fustian, the people hissed him and drew back as he passed so their garments would not touch him.
–L. Frank Baum in The Scarecrow of Oz.
My two companions chattered in their strange Spanish, he of the fustian occasionally turning his countenance full upon me, the last grin appearing ever more hideous than the preceding ones.
–George Borrow in The Bible in Spain.
The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock coat.
–George Borrow in The Bible in Spain.
George started up in confusion; a man, elderly, but fresh and vigorous, stood beside him, in a light fustian jacket, a blue apron, and with rushes in his hands, which he continued to plait together nimbly and deftly as he bowed to the startled scholar.
–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in What Will He Do With It, book 5.
It is fustian; and that girl may have a brain of feather, but she has a heart of gold.
–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Parisians, book 12.
And yet beneath all this fustian there is much that stirs the blood.
–H.E. Butler in Post-Augustan Poetry (From Seneca to Juvenal).
Dirt and fustian will vanish before cleanliness and livery.
–Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz.
His children often had, and with his perfect acquiescence it had gone into the common purse to buy meat that he had eaten, and drink that he had drunk; but fustian splashed with white lime, bestowing halfpence on him, front to front, was new.
–Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit.
Men with the blue jersey and peaked cap of the boatman, or the white ducks of the dockers, began to replace the cardurys and fustian of the laborers.
–Arthur Conan Doyle in Beyond the City.
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